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in 1995 churchill discussed his views with david barsamian in an interview : you could say that five hundred years ago was the basis of blood quantum in ibero @ - @ america. but in anglo @ - @ america, while there was some preoccupation with it, it was not formalized until the passage of the general allotment act, mid @ - @ 1880s. at that point they began to define indian as being someone who was demonstrably and documentably of at least one @ - @ quarter by quantum blood indigenous in a given group. you couldn't be an eighth cheyenne and an eighth arapaho